Just another formalized excuse to practice digital techniques of making to create new aff‑ects in resolution and aesthetics that resonate with a person’s psyche. Purple Cowhead is the third edition of the fractured husbandry series. Medium: eps foam/abs plastic/ black acrylic/epoxy size: 30x30x26” Contact Rash,llc. for pricing.

By Artist Catherine Richards. Fabricated by Rash, LLC. "Coral City is an architectural installation at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center opening October 31, 2015 through October 2017. Coral City is inspired by the structure of the worlds coral reef's as architectural systems full of imagination and delight. Coral reefs are some of the most ecologically diverse places on the planet. The reef can be described as a city where many animals and plants work together to make a community. These sensitive environments are some of the most endangered on the planet. It is estimated that if action isn’t taken soon, nearly all the worlds coral reefs could be lost by 2050.
Digitally fabricated furniture, covered in neoprene is movable, stackable and able to be re-configured. Yellow and grey striped wallpaper responds to the experience of being underwater. The wave wall is 3d milled like a curtain unfolding in space. It appears to be moving, as a soft and fluid surface. Laser etched mirrors reflect opposing textures in the space creating portals to different viewpoints and perspectives. The lighting is inspired by early scientific experiments. The idea of refraction of light and surface is used with dichroic films. Light bounces off the film in one direction and creates different colors in the opposing direction." - from Catherine Richards. Photos via Catherine Richards.

Just another formalized excuse to practice digital techniques of making to create new aff‑ects in resolution and aesthetics that resonate with a person’s psyche. Thoroughbred Head is the second edition of the fractured husbandry series. Medium: eps foam/abs plastic/ black acrylic/epoxy size: 30x30x26” Contact Rash,llc. for pricing.

Silk Bloom is a series of sculptural forms based on the geometries and undulations of a flower bouquet and the graphic patterns of jockey silks. The forms bend, wrap and fold in a similar language to paper origami construction methods. The vivid patterning is also meant to be evocative of the wayfinding symbols of trails and roadways and bold enough to stand out in the urban landscape and be noticed, pondered and remembered by car travelers en route to the races. Designed by W/Field Workshop. Consultation and Fabrication by Rash, llc. Funded by LexArts and the City of Lexington.

About W/Field Workshop

W/Field Workshop is a collaboration between a new media artist (Christopher Field) and an installation artist (Sarah West). Projects often explore the site-specific spatial and visual experiences of urban or public conditions and our combined experience in architecture, public art and digital technologies enables us to create work in a wide variety of forms. The studio is located in Mt. Sterling, KY.

Adapted from John Kassay’s drawings of 18th- and 19th-century Windsor chairs, the built set examines a medley of design what-not-to-do’s. The seven dining chairs push the visuality of illusions beyond basic trompe l’oeil styling and toward a projective form of vision, or cunning sight, that embraces visual error as both intuition and method. Designed by Norman Kelley, LLC. Fabricated by Rash, LLC. Available for purchase from Volume Gallery.

fractured husbandry is a formalized excuse to practice digital techniques of making to create new aff‑ects in resolution and aesthetics that resonate with a person’s psyche.
Cow Head is the first edition of the fractured husbandry series.
Medium: eps foam/abs plastic/ black acrylic/epoxy
size: 30x30x26”
Contact Rash,llc. for pricing.

Architect Jimenez Lai discovering a 'building within a building'. Aluminum, plexi, rubber, and Argentine cowhide. Great work by Andrew Akins and Thomas Kelley and many others to make this happen. Production, processing, and fabrication at PRvD for LoT Gallery. Photography: Magnus Lindqvist

The Kartal Pendik Masterplan installation by Zaha Hadid Architects and shown at the Sonnabend Gallery. For more information please visit Zaha Hadid and Rove Gallery. All images in this gallery are copyright of Bettina Johae, please visit the site of this amazing photographer for more info. Processing and fabrication at Parrish/Rash. 2008

The bench was designed by Architect Duncan Nicholson for a James Turrell Skyspace at the Dallas Price Residence. Processed and Fabricated over 8 months with approximately 2000 parts. For more information please visit Duncan Nicholson.

St. Elizabeth Healthcare Hospice in Northern Kentucky partnered this year with The University of Kentucky College of Design to create a memorial sculpture made from a piece of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center towers. Rives oversaw a team of students through the design and fabrication. Learn More.

The College of Design recently hosted nine students from Shanghai University and ran a six-day workshop which introduced them to digital design and fabrication in architecture. The workshop, instructed by School of Architecture faculty members Kyle Miller and Rives Rash, sought to promote innovation in design through the understanding and use of contemporary techniques for making. HERE......

Sangre was produced for Hernan Diaz-Alonso's firm Xefirotarch for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Designer Series. The installation traveled further to the Art Institute of Chicago. For more information please visit Xefirotarch.

Pitch Black was fabricated for Hernan Diaz-Alonso and exhibited at the MAK Center Vienna as well as Artist Space NYC. For more information please visit Xefirotarch. Body by Parrish Productions and legs by Rash.

Shop talk with Rives.
excerpt: Let’s try and define what a typical person like Joe Blow on the street would think a “fabricator” is. They would say, “A guy who makes things.” In order for that person to make things, they're given a set of drawings that are all figured out and they go and fabricate directly off of those drawings. What I actually get paid to do is the three weeks or three months that it takes for me to draw and figure it out what I'm given so that I can fabricate it. I don’t know what to call that front loaded area but that’s really the only thing I am getting paid for and its what a lot of companies don’t know how to do. They have an idea about what they want the end product to look like and they think they’re paying me for that end product. But what they’re paying for is the time immediately after they hand over the file. It gets into a discussion about intellectual property, which is part of what you’re talking about. Where does the intellectual property exist and when does it change from what was originally given to you to what you actually figure out?
Read interview here.

Klex is a prototype fabricated by Parrish|Rash for Ruy Klein. It was featured in the Masters of Sensation show at the Artist Space NYC. For more information on the amazing practice of Ruy Klein, please visit Ruy Klein.

fractured husbandry is a formalized excuse to practice digital techniques of making to create new aff‑ects in resolution and aesthetics that resonate with a person’s psyche.
Cow Head is the first edition of the fractured husbandry series.
Medium: eps foam/abs plastic/ black acrylic/epoxy
size: 30x30x26”
Contact Rash,llc. for pricing.